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Your First Day with CSS

by Susan Simkins

In this course we will learn everything you need to know to be able to write Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, from scratch. Software required: Brackets Text Editor, Google Chrome Browser.

What you'll learn

In this course we will learn everything you need to know to be able to write Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, from scratch. We will learn how to create and attach CSS stylesheets to our HTML files so that they affect our HTML, basic CSS syntax, and some common properties that will allow us to change the color of text, manipulate the width of images, add borders, and change the background color of web pages. We will also learn important concepts like how to keep our files organized by using comments and grouping selectors, understanding the cascade, and validating our code to check for common errors. Software required: Brackets Text Editor, Google Chrome Browser.

About the author

Susan is a web design tutor for Pluralsight. Growing up, Susan was both a passionate artist as well as a computer tech aficionado. When she discovered the world of web development, she found that she could meld those two passions together into something amazing. Soon after, Susan began devoting herself to building beautiful and functional web content for businesses and nonprofits. It was through those experiences Susan developed a fluency for web coding languages. Since then, Susan has develo... more

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